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Today was our last day in the field. With the help of four local workers (Anand, Prakash, Vittal, and Laxman), we finished up our work in the Gokak area. We screen-washed almost 2.5 tons of sediment from several sites where many clam, snail, and turtle...
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On Tuesday, we started work in our second area—a small pocket of badlands just outside the town of Gokak in the southwestern state of Karnataka . Twelve years ago, when the GSI first started work here, these badlands were isolated. But with the continued...
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Over the weekend we finished up our work in the state of Andhra Pradesh . Although we didn't see a lot of fossil bone, we're confident that the 3 tons of sediment that we sieved will lead to some good discoveries back at the lab under the microscopes....
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So I had my first run-in with the law here. On Sunday, Mr. Anantharaman worked with two workers washing sediment in the stream, while 10 kilometers away I collected sediment with two workers and our driver (Tirupathi). At the end of the day, Tirupathi...
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I've been here nearly a week and our work is humming along pretty nicely right now. We have four workers from the village of Naskal that now know exactly what we're doing and how to do it, which is great. We've collected and sieved about three tons of...
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Today was our third day in the field. We've been working at a locality near the village of Naskal, about 68 kilometers from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh . It's where the first mammal fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs in India were found. Besides me, the...
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It's 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday here in Hyderabad, India . I actually wrote this entry earlier today, but as I was about to send it, the power went out, and I lost everything. Apparently, the city of Hyderabad has regularly scheduled power outages; this one...
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Greg Wilson, PhD, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology During most of the Age of Dinosaurs (Mesozoic Era), India had a much more southerly position than it does today. It was positioned alongside Madagascar and was connected to South America via Antarctica....
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